3197.0 Barriers and Enablers for delivering quality and culturally and linguistically appropriate public health programs to refugees and immigrants

Monday, November 8, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
Moderator:
Jigna M. Dharod, PhD

12:30pm
Educating Refugees During an Outbreak: Lessons Learned from the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Response
Erika Willacy, MPH, Michael Guterbock, MPH, Amber Tayman, MPH, CHES and Kelli Martin, MPH, CHES
  
12:45pm
Impact of culturally-integrated liver cancer education on hepatitis B knowledge among Asian Americans
Hee-Soon Juon, PhD, Janice Bowie, PhD, MPH, Lu Chen and Sunmin Lee, ScD, MPH
  
1:00pm
Improving patient safety system implementation for patients with limited English proficiency
Melanie R. Wasserman, PhD, Megan Renfrew, MA, Lenny Lopez, MD, MDiv, MPA, Cindy Brach, MPP and Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH
  
1:15pm
Barriers to health care among refugee asylum seekers
Ramin Asgary, MD, MPH and Nora Segar, MPH
  
1:30pm
Determinants of help-seeking behaviors among Latino and Asian American immigrants: The importance of immigration and family stressors
Janet Chang, PhD and Misaki Natsuaki, PhD

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Organized by: Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health
Endorsed by: Latino Caucus, Socialist Caucus, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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